I find that non-US persons are more familiar with unit systems. Even though I'm an American (chemical) engineer, few of my friends would know what FPS means. They might have a guess at SPF since sunblock is commonly advertised on TV. If only computer hardware was more actively advertised....
There were dinosaurs. But they all died and turned to oil. The the Arabs came along and drilled that oil. With oil-based products we could make plastics and vinyl records. But we could record these vinyl records to tape and listen to them in our cars because of fair-use laws.
Then things like intellectual property rights were invented. Next was the digital wonder of DVDs but you can't record them to anything else because they're encrypted. Laws were passed to protect the MPAA's IP rights. Someone discovered the keys to the MPAA's magic kingdom. Smarter people made several software programs to copy the DVDs so we could do whatever we wanted to with them.
And then there were no fair-use laws.
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Yes I noticed this early this morning. It appears my code red hits stopped shortly after 11:05pm last night.
They might have blocked 80 from the outside world, but internal infections can still take place.
I can connect to a few IPs that affected me within the 24.163.x.x network.
On the chat with tech support they have no date when the block will be lifted.
There's only so many camera angles you can have during your average skin flick. This thing would be able to show a little more than the average filmmaker could shoot with a handheld.
Imaging the freeze frame,rotated Matrix-like sequences!
That personal firewall (ZoneAlarm) blocks ports based on what program is running. It would allow OE to access port 25, but you can block other programs from using port 25 also.
The crappy part is that Social Engineering prevailed.
With this SirCam virus, there can no longer be privacy on windows machines.
I explained this to a church leader who had his computer flailed with this virus. There is no user security on Win98. It gets better on WinNT and Win2k, but there is nothing preventing this virus from sending out anything on your computer. This time it was only a few DOC files.
The church leader is on a minister search committee and had MANY private docs on his computer. Every notion of security and privacy just went out the window as soon as SirCam hit.
The worst part about it he did have a personal firewall, but his young child's friend/cousin/other allowed SirCam access to the internet.
Cheapskates!!! Probably too cheap to pay for MS/IIS with 100 CAL and instead just copied some software found on the net on a fly-by-night warez server for their webserver.
This reminds me of some kids up the street wanting to get in on my game of (insert game here). They refuse to play by the established rules and can't adjust their style to my game. I tell them how it's played and the rules are set.
So then they get frustrated and continue to break all the rules, but no one else cares, and the game continues.
They eventually lose the game, despite having played for a tenth of the time I have, and go away crying to their mommies and daddies.
Well, if they want to win, they can make up their own game and stay outta mine.
Virus scanners are nice, but they aren't a solution by themselves. Security is a process, not a state of mind or any single product.
Why not also advise and instruct the students to use a 'personal firewall' like Zone Alarm? The advantages to using a firewall is that the firewall can be set on HIGH and not allow access to rogue trojans.
I like using Zone Alarm on my personal machine at work because I don't want anyone else to be able to read my hard drive heiarchy or test the latest NT/W2K vulernability on my machine.
Encourage protection by multiple means, not just by a single edict.
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My dad made some purple potato stuff for a church dinner. Even though they tasted identical to regular potatos, but few people tried them.
As much as the purple potato is resistant to disease, people are more resistant to change.
Leisure Suit Larry
'nuff said.
It's called the SSN, or Social Security Number.
The SSN is *NOT* supposed to be our unique personal identifier, but is treated as one anyway.
But this is my 15 minutes of fame. I got lucky twice by having the #2 post with something funny enough to have someone mod up.
I believe the gravitational vector we're subjected to varies according to strange string theories of the universe.
force = mass * accelleration
mass is a scalar
accelleration is a vector
1N = kg/m^2
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And the girls get bigger breasts, too!
We all now lost 10% of our weight. I just hacked NIST's computers and changed the reference.
Why aren't I thin now? I must hack the electronic tape measure next.
$10 if you want me to make you taller, too.
You can enforce your laws.
So much for checks and balances.
I find that non-US persons are more familiar with unit systems. Even though I'm an American (chemical) engineer, few of my friends would know what FPS means. They might have a guess at SPF since sunblock is commonly advertised on TV. If only computer hardware was more actively advertised....
It's crap like this why the US population can't handle the SI unit system, not to mention their own gringo unit system.
This is the same reason why hot dogs are sold in packages of twelve and buns in packages of eight.
There were dinosaurs. But they all died and turned to oil. The the Arabs came along and drilled that oil. With oil-based products we could make plastics and vinyl records. But we could record these vinyl records to tape and listen to them in our cars because of fair-use laws.
Then things like intellectual property rights were invented. Next was the digital wonder of DVDs but you can't record them to anything else because they're encrypted. Laws were passed to protect the MPAA's IP rights. Someone discovered the keys to the MPAA's magic kingdom. Smarter people made several software programs to copy the DVDs so we could do whatever we wanted to with them.
And then there were no fair-use laws.
Yes I noticed this early this morning. It appears my code red hits stopped shortly after 11:05pm last night.
They might have blocked 80 from the outside world, but internal infections can still take place.
I can connect to a few IPs that affected me within the 24.163.x.x network.
On the chat with tech support they have no date when the block will be lifted.
There's only so many camera angles you can have during your average skin flick. This thing would be able to show a little more than the average filmmaker could shoot with a handheld.
Imaging the freeze frame,rotated Matrix-like sequences!
Dude, I made it to four.
That personal firewall (ZoneAlarm) blocks ports based on what program is running. It would allow OE to access port 25, but you can block other programs from using port 25 also.
The crappy part is that Social Engineering prevailed.
I explained this to a church leader who had his computer flailed with this virus. There is no user security on Win98. It gets better on WinNT and Win2k, but there is nothing preventing this virus from sending out anything on your computer. This time it was only a few DOC files.
The church leader is on a minister search committee and had MANY private docs on his computer. Every notion of security and privacy just went out the window as soon as SirCam hit.
The worst part about it he did have a personal firewall, but his young child's friend/cousin/other allowed SirCam access to the internet.
Greetings Dr. Falken. It's been a long time.
Would you like to play a game?
And if I put in the correct sequence I can have the FBI rummage through my garbage cans for trashed printouts off a dot matrix printer.
This is way cool. Maybe I can use PAM with this!
Cheapskates!!! Probably too cheap to pay for MS/IIS with 100 CAL and instead just copied some software found on the net on a fly-by-night warez server for their webserver.
They didn't die. They violated some obscure NDA and a large media company *cough* RIAA *cough* had them terminated.
This reminds me of some kids up the street wanting to get in on my game of (insert game here). They refuse to play by the established rules and can't adjust their style to my game. I tell them how it's played and the rules are set.
So then they get frustrated and continue to break all the rules, but no one else cares, and the game continues.
They eventually lose the game, despite having played for a tenth of the time I have, and go away crying to their mommies and daddies.
Well, if they want to win, they can make up their own game and stay outta mine.
I'd like to see my windows desktop look like Windomaker.
Can my OEM do that??
What's really funny is that I use FreeBSD as my preferred OS at home.
And I got a mod point of -1. Geez.
I'm gonna have to post this one just to get back to zero mod points for the day.
Does no one see the humor?
If any ISP alters the content of my mail 'envelope' I'm calling it an invasion of privacy.
Virus scanners are nice, but they aren't a solution by themselves. Security is a process, not a state of mind or any single product.
Why not also advise and instruct the students to use a 'personal firewall' like Zone Alarm? The advantages to using a firewall is that the firewall can be set on HIGH and not allow access to rogue trojans.
I like using Zone Alarm on my personal machine at work because I don't want anyone else to be able to read my hard drive heiarchy or test the latest NT/W2K vulernability on my machine.
Encourage protection by multiple means, not just by a single edict.
Which comet is flying near Earth now?? My usual, reliable news outlets haven't mentioned anything.
This isn't a jury trial. Burglars who've been videotaped have sued homeowners for injuries obtained while in the victim's house!
Just because 2600 Magazine has a "hacker" stigma, Sec. 1201 will not hold up in court if the defendants (Apellees) can't make a strong case.
I think 2600 Magazine will win.
'nuff said.